Hello Joey Baghodoughnuts >I am getting ready to make the conversion for one of my vehicles to >run straight Ethanol, not E-85 but 100% Ethanol. > >Has anyone successfully done this? > >I have a project car sitting around, a 1986 Chevy Camaro, with the >2.8L 6-cylinder Engine, and I have a supply of pure ethanol >available. > >I know I need to either reconfigure the timing in the computer for >the injectors, or I need to buy a unit with a time-delay to be able >to make the fuel-air mixture a little richer due to ethanol burning >with a lower energy coefficient. I know that I'll also have to add >a secondary filter to the fuel line that's easily changed on the >side of the road, due to the detergent effects of ethanol. Is there >anything else anyone can think of that I should add to the list of >work that I will have to do on this engine before it can safely burn >Ethanol? > >I know that I'll be taking a performance hit on this as well, but I >will eventually get to making other modifications to improve >performance and hopefully get it back to what it was before the >conversion.
Have you read the fuel alcohol manuals at the Biofuels Library? Right at the top: <http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel_library.html> I'll second Dawie's recommendation of David Blume's "Alcohol Can Be a Gas", there's a bit more here: <http://journeytoforever.org/ethanol_link.html#acbag> Someone named John just sent me this, about using straight 100% ethanol, but wet ethanol, not absolute: >If you are truly interested in ethanol as a fuel, you must see the >following website. ... > >http://notforcapital.com/oil-and-water.htm >and >http://notforcapital.com/oil-and-water-02.htm >John Interesting. HTH - best Keith _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list [email protected] http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
